What Happened Today – April 12

📊 GovBrief Intensity Score: 104 🟨
In the normal range. Today tracked close to the two-month average. The score measures how much major U.S. political activity happened today compared to the past 60 days. 100 = average.

🧱 Brick by brick, the Trump administration is gutting norms and tearing down the guardrails.

A senior Social Security official gets walked out for objecting to the legality of classifying thousands of migrants as dead. DHS sends a mass email telling people to leave the country, even to at least one U.S. citizen. The CDC fires its cruise outbreak team mid-norovirus spike as an infected ship sails into Miami. And HHS? They don’t even know how many people they’ve fired.

Meanwhile, the administration demands control of Ukraine’s gas pipeline, targets one million deportations before Christmas, and wants to defund Head Start. This is systemic, not sloppy.

But the resistance has a pulse. 36,000 filled L.A. streets with Bernie Sanders to say no more. More events hit Utah and Idaho today. Go to a local event if you can. Get involved where you live. The Mobilize link below can help you find a good match.